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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">The NEST Initiative is excited to invite everyone interested in Neural Simulation Technology and the NEST Simulator to the NEST Conference 2026. The NEST Conference provides
an opportunity for the NEST Community to meet, exchange success stories, swap advice, learn about current developments in and around NEST spiking network simulation and its application. Take the opportunity to advance your skills in using NEST at our hands-on
workshops!</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">We explicitly encourage young scientists to participate in the conference!</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">This year's conference will again take place as a virtual conference on
<b>Tuesday/Wednesday 16/17 June 2026.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">We are delighted to welcome</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">as one of our keynote speakers at this year’s conference. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><b>Registration and submission of contributions are now open!</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">We are inviting you to submit contributions in the form of talks and "posters".</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Please register and submit your contribution(s) via the conference website</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(150, 96, 125);"><b><u><a href="https://nest-simulator.org/conference" title="https://nest-simulator.org/conference" data-outlook-id="ed655120-c3fc-421b-8509-e1c14f814871" style="color: rgb(150, 96, 125); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://nest-simulator.org/conference</a></u></b></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><b>.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><b>Important dates:</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><b>10 April</b> 2026 - Deadline for submission of contributions</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><b>05 May</b> 2026 - Notification of acceptance</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">We are looking forward to seeing you all in June!</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Hans Ekkehard Plesser and the conference organizing committee</span></p>
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<span style="color: black;">Research Committee Chair, Faculty of Science and Technology</span></p>
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